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AgVetLink: Number 53, December 2005

From the Director

This issue of AgVetLink marks a milestone for the Group – we are in the final stage of transferring registrations to the ACVM Act (page 2).

It also marks a milestone for Brian Pidford, who is retiring in January after many years with us. We profile his career and introduce our new Assistant Director, John Bongiovanni, on page 4.

An overview of how our role has changed as a result of NZFSA restructuring to rationalise and harmonise functions is provided on page 3. We hope this helps to clarify the new system for you.

The recent OECD pesticides programmes workshops in Wellington were a great success, attracting record numbers of participants (page 6).

We wish you all a safe and happy holiday season–-details of the ‘Christmas closedown’ are on page 8.

Debbie Morris, Director, Approvals and ACVM Group